[Avodah] R. Reisman's question

[Elazar M. Teitz]

     Regarding the discussion of bar-mitzva and birthdays, note that on the day of his birth, a boy is ben yom echad, not ben zero yamim.  Therefore, 13 years are not completed until he is ben sh'losha asar v'yom echad.  Likewise, Moshe was born as a ben yom echad -- on the first day of his first year, and thus did not reach 120 full years until the first day of his 121st year.

     In English, we would say that a boy's bris takes place when he is seven days old -- which is the eighth day of his life.  But the Torah calls him "ben sh'monas yamim" -- eight days old.  Chazal adopted the same terminology; hence, "thirteen and a day."

EMT

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